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Black Patients With Mental Health Conditions More Likely Than Whites to End Up in Nursing Homes

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Older patients with mental health conditions were more likely to be admitted to nursing homes upon hospital discharge than older patients without mental health diagnoses, and black patients with mental health conditions had higher odds of nursing...

Journal Highlights From the February Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Residents in post-acute and long-term care facilities experience twice the rate of admission to intensive care units due to sepsis, a longer hospital stay, and more than twice the mortality than non-nursing home residents, but these outcomes may be...

Ensuring a Legacy

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
My satisfying work as a volunteer with the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine (Our Foundation) gives me a chance to do things at this stage of my career—admittedly a later stage—that I don’t get to do in my many other...

The Long Journey of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Research

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Post-acute and long-term care research has come a long way; and it’s getting more attention as the aging population grows. Increasingly, payors, policy makers, providers, and even consumers want to know about innovative care management and the best...

Extinguishing the Fire of Burnout With Targeted, Innovative Solutions

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
According to the National Academy of Medicine, more than half of U.S. physicians experience substantial symptoms of burnout. “Burnout is an increasingly recognized phenomenon in the health care workplace, and current research suggests high rates of...

Addiction Medicine in PALTC: Speaker to Share Guidance on Care, Respect, Dignity, Recovery

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Increasingly, post-acute and long-term care facilities are seeing patients with opioid addiction and other substance use disorders. Some of these patients are older adults — more like traditional PALTC patients — but some are younger, representing a...

The Power of Positivity

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Health care is a difficult business. The demands are greater on staff, particularly in long-term care and assisted living. The residents are medically complex, as are their care needs. Documentation has become cumbersome, even with an electronic...

A 3-Item Screening Scale for Caregiver Burden in Dementia Caregiving: Scale Development and Score Mapping to the 22-Item Zarit Burden Interview

JAMDA
December 24, 2018
Brief screening scales for caregiver burden are much needed in routine dementia services to efficiently identify caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) for further intervention. Although the 22-item Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) is often used, its...

Condition-Specific Pamphlets to Improve End-of-life Communication in Long-term Care: Staff Perceptions on Usability and Use

JAMDA
December 21, 2018
This article reports findings on the usability and staff use of 5 condition- specific pamphlets of high prevalence in long-term care (LTC): dementia, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal failure, and frailty. The pamphlets...

Orthostatic Hypotension and Falls in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

JAMDA
December 21, 2018
Orthostatic hypotension is a potential risk factor for falls in older adults, but existing evidence on this relationship is inconclusive. This study addresses the association between orthostatic hypotension and falls.